I thought of another reason why I am turning more toward pre-trib. The early Christians in Thessalonica were concerned and thinking that they'd missed the Rapture. In 2Thessalonians Paul had to reassure them and explain to them what to expect to happen before the Rapture would occur. He didn't mention the Great Tribulation or the wrath of God happening first.
He didn't mention the Great Tribulation?
The Abomination of Desolation is what triggers the Great Tribulation.
That is what he starts off by explaining.
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3
Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and
the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
The man of sin sitting in the temple of God showing himself as God is the AOD Jesus said would trigger the GT.
For then then will be Great Tribulation...
Remember, the man of sin, the Lawless one, the antichrist will be alive on earth when Jesus returns, because it is The Lord Jesus who destroys him, by the brightness of His Coming.
Jesus personally destroys the antichrist.
That means Jesus returns after the Great Tribulation.
There would be no Great Tribulation if Jesus destroyed him before the Great tribulation started.
JLB